Testimony to continue this afternoon against Marcus Hanserd, charged in 2004 homicide

SAGINAW — Testimony is to continue this afternoon in the trial for Marcus D. Hanserd, charged with fatally shooting and carjacking Sheric R. Harris in 2004.

Hanserd, 26, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder or, in the alternative, felony murder, in the early April 16 death of Harris, a 26-year-old father of four, at the Circle K Food Store, 1615 E. Genesee on Saginaw’s East Side.

Several police officials are to testify this afternoon during the third day of testimony. Hanserd’s trial before Saginaw County Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson began last week.

Dawn Lueders testified last week that she and a friend were parked outside the store when Hanserd and another man appeared from inside the store. She watched as Hanserd walked between the 1981 Z28 Camaro that Harris drove to the store and a vehicle that Harris was sitting in, opened the other vehicle’s door, and shot Harris.

Hanserd then entered the Camaro and “took off,” Lueders testified.

The jurors heard brief testimony from several witnesses on Monday, including state police Trooper Ryan Larrison, who testified that the three fired bullets found at the scene likely were shot from a .38 Colt revolver — a “Wild West”-type gun.

Hanserd currently is serving a 15- to 45-year prison sentence for an armed robbery at the Stop -N- Shop convenience store, 1226 Janes at South Sixth in Saginaw, that occurred about 30 minutes before the shooting.

The robbery victim, Henry Baskin, testified last week that the gun Hanserd had was like a gun shown in Western movies.

Hanserd, who last lived at 2718 Cumberland in Saginaw, also is charged with carjacking and six firearm offenses.

Both first-degree murder and felony murder — the act of killing someone while committing another felony — carry mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.